Beatrice Beecham's Ship of Shadows
Cotteridge’s eyes widened, and without warning went into the room, striding through the fog, creating a wake that sent it lapping like water against the walls.
Melville looked at Trevor. “Keep watch.”
With that Melville followed Cotteridge, and found him down on his haunches examining the body on the floor, his fingers absently rubbing his chin.
“Burnt to a crisp,” he said at Melville’s approach.
With a grim face, the captain looked down at the owner of the arm. The fog seemed to have washed away from this part of the room, and the ghastly image of a charred skeleton, its lower jaw askew, stared at the ceiling through empty sockets. Around the scrawny, charred neck was an oval pendant; remar
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